I could be, with your help!
Imagine my surprise when I recently received an email from BritMums, Britain’s biggest collective of lifestyle bloggers and social media influencers, telling me I’d made the shortlist for the BritMums Brilliance in Blogging 2016 Awards in the Food category!
I didn’t even know I’d been nominated, so to be included in a shortlist with nine other fantastic food bloggers is quite an honour. Last year over 200,000 nominations and votes were cast showing just how big the Bibs are in the blogging community. Thank you to whomever nominated me, I will be forever grateful!
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
Five of the shortlisted blogs in each category will go on to reach the finals. Three of these will be the blogs who receive the most number of votes while the other two will be chosen by the BritMums panel. Voting is open until the 18th of May.
The finalists will be announced on the 27th of May. Then, each category judge will carefully choose a winner and the winners will be announced at the Brilliance in Blogging Awards Ceremony in London on the 24th of June.
Imagine!
If you enjoy my recipes, photography and random adventure stories I’d really be forever grateful if you cast your vote for me – reaching the finals for the #Bibs2016 would be rather fantastic! I’ve already got plans for my epic 250 mile RNLI fundraising mountain bike cycle and mountain climb in mid-June, so the likelihood of me getting to London for the awards ceremony would be quite slim (possible, but slim!). How awesome would it to send a video acceptance speech from the summit of Ben Nevis? Sorry, I might be daydreaming a little bit here! Then I’d get to call myself an award-winning blogger. How cool would that be?!
I am in the Food shortlist with some other pretty fantastic food blogs – I’ve met Kate at Veggie Desserts, Sarah at Taming Twins and Emily at A Mummy Too in person and hold them all in very high regard, so if you don’t want to vote for me I’d highly recommend casting your vote for any of them. Note – the voting page can only be filled out once – and yes, overseas readers can vote too!
You could help me become an award winning blogger! Click here or on the image below to take you to the voting page, open until May 18th! Thank you! x
Becca @ Amuse Your Bouche
Oooh congratulations Elizabeth! Heading over to vote now. Loving the pic 🙂
Emma Bee (@Emmabuzzybee)
well done you! i can imagine your trepidation and excitment.
hope allgoes well and obvs let us know the outcome 🙂
Divya @Divya's Culinary Journey
Congratulations on the nomination! I am heading to vote for you! My best wishes to you as well!
Maeva CookALife
Congratulation, sounds very great 😀
Leanne
Wow congratulations that is such a fab achievement. I’d be grinning like a Cheshire cat if that was me!!
Helen
Congratulations on being nominated. I’ve voted for you. Good luck!
Helen at CAsa Costello
So pleased for you – and lovely to see a post showing how genuinely pleased you are! Wishing you the best of luck! x
nicol
ooo well done you! going over to vote now. fingers crossed, good luck!
Emma
Congratulations!! What an amazing achievement, you must be so proud. I’m off to vote for you now.
Emma
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Emma
Congratulations!! What an amazing achievement, you should be so proud! Off to vote now.
Emma
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Linda (Meal Planning Maven)
Congrats and much luck to you!!
Kira C
Congratulations!!! And all the best of luck! Too bad you won’t be able to make the ceremony but I can’t wait to hear about you mountain cycle!
Laura H
Congratulations! Very well deserved, I have given you a vote 😀
Camilla
Super well done and thoroughly deserved Elizabeth, I’d love to see you win and have voted for you;-)
Katerina
Congratulations and good luck!
Miss Kiity Kaos
How exciting congratulations well deserved x
Diane
Fantastic! And well deserved. Congratulations on the notice of getting nominated. I love your blog and I have voted for you. You go girl!!
Michelle @ The Complete Savorist
Congratulations! What a wonderful honor…Good luck, I voted.
Tara
Wishing you all the best, congrats!!
Sandi (@sandigtweets)
Congratulations…voted!
The Food Hunter
Congrats this is awesome! heading to vote
Liz Mays
How exciting! That must have been such a nice surprise. I’m going to vote for you!
Melanie Edjourian
Congratulations on being nominated, you have a lovely blog.
Rebecca Smith
Good luck and well done for getting onto the shortlist!
Ana De- Jesus
Well done hun that is amazing you deserve it, I just voted for you so fingers crossed you win! Good luck xx
The London Mum
Well done!! Good luck lovely xx
Life as Mum
Congratulations 🙂 I voted for you yesterday when I did my voting x
Harriet from Toby & Roo
Well done you! it’s such an honour to be nominated with BIBS! H x
Joanne/WineLady Cooks
Congratulations! On the way to vote, all the best!
Stella
Congrats on your nomination. Hope you win, you deserve it.
Angela
So awesome!!!! Wishing you the best of luck! So well deserved!
MsPrettyLThings
Ooh congratulations – they say it’s nice just to be nominated but ‘Meh, I always want to win!’
Hope you get lucky.
Nettie Moore
Good Luck! Nettie
Laura @ dearbearandbeany
Congratulations and good luck x
Rhian Westbury
Wow well done that is such an achievement. I can’t believe you didn’t even know you had been shortlisted x
Del's cooking twist
This is simply amazing, way to go!! Congrats!
Debi @ Life Currents
How awesome! And good luck! Hopping over to vote for you now!
Nayna Kanabar
Many congratulations for being short listed, wishing you lots of luck.
KC the Kitchen Chopper
It’s so exciting to be recognized by your peers. I’m off to vote. Good luck!
Dorothy at Shockingly Delicious
Good luck! I am voting for YOU!
Sarah Bailey
Good luck with your entry into the BIBS well done on getting this far 🙂 x
Lynette
Well done, that is amazing. Good luck with it all and keep up the great work. Love your hair by the way x
Dean of Little Steps
That’s easy! I’ve already voted for you! 😉 Good luck. xx
sarah
Amazing!! Well done!! You deserve it. You have put a lot of time and effort into your blog and it really shines through. I’m off to vote now, Good luck for the finals xx